The second beercast/podcast on beer/Zekecast on beer, whatever. This time I’m drinking La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout from the Microbrasserie Charlevoix. Again there isn’t an awful lot about it on the internet.
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La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout (close up of the head)
I bought mine at Epicerie Unique, 4109 Saint Laurent, in Montreal. Some other links you might like are Denis Reid, the artist who designed the label. The Wikipedia definition of Imperial stout. And then I would like to thank Brad Slyde for the background music.
La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout (front label)
The Cole’s notes version: It’s a really nice beer, the taste, smell and look do not go together as you would expect. But all of them are good. More designed to be drunk in the woods or wood cabin during the winter, it is nonetheless mighty tasty at the tail end of the summer. Black as night with 9% alcohol by volume, drink it slowly.
La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout (back label)La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout (in the glass)
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Installation view of Sylvain Bouthillette’s 15 Hertz at Galerie Trois PointsFlavie Boucher’s entry in L’Art du Style at Les Ailes de la ModeView of the New Sculpture Garden at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Last week I went to see a performance of the Cirque Éloize‘s iD. If you would like to hear what I thought about it, listen here:
Cirque Éloize’s iD
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First off, props need to be given to all the performers: Ignacio Adar, Lisa Eckert, Nicolas Fortin, Jesse Huygh, Xuan Le, Nadia Lumley, Justine Méthé-Crozat, Baptiste Montassier, Samuel ‘Sam Sung’ Nadai, Thibaut Philippe, Jeremy Saint-Jean, Ryan Shinji Murray, Emi Vauthey, Kone Thong Vongpraseuth. I also have to thank Two Zombies Later for all the background music. Then during the podcast I mention 21 Jump Street
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Last month Eloi Desjardins from Un Show de Mot’Arts and I got together to discuss the fall art preview articles that appeared in La Presse, Le Devoir, and Art Intake.
The EZ Montreal Art Podcast episode 6
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Over the weekend I tried a new beer, Broken 7 by La Compagnie de Bière Brisset (so new in fact, that in this day and age, I can’t find a single useful link anywhere for either of them). I ended up recording my thoughts about it. Call it the Zekecast, Zeke’s Montreal Beer Podcast, a beercast or whatever.
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In a nutshell, it’s a very reasonable and nice beer made better by it being made locally. Bright yellow, 5% abv, it comes in thin 500ml brown bottles with a label that evokes baseball uniforms. It has strong hay overtones with a nice aftertaste, I also was able to taste and smell at first some celery then a vague citrus scent and flavor (somewhere in between lemon and grapefruit) and a slight hint of something approaching licorice. However the lasting image and memory is of a late summer pasture. It’s much better when drunk extremely cold.
A bottle of Broken 7 by La Compagnie de Bière Brisset
For those who are interested, the players on the Expos who wore the number 7 were Bobby Wine (1969 – 1972), Bob Stinson (1973 – 1974), Tony Bernazard (1979), Ron LeFlore (1980), Hubie Brooks (1985 – 1989), Lou Frazier (1993 – 95), F.P. Santangelo (1996 – 1998), Orlando Merced (1999), Todd Zeile (2003) and Tony Batista (2004). But as I point out Alain McKenna is probably wrong in thinking that there is any link to baseball, as here in Montreal the name will be pronounced “broh-kuhn set.” As the number seven is pronounced “set” in French. So it is much more likely that if there is any sports connection it is to tennis. And it only occurred to me now, that not only did he not write anything substantial about the beer, but what little he did write, he got wrong, implying that it is a Lager, when in fact it is an Ale.
A bottle of Broken 7 by La Compagnie de Bière Brisset
The label for Broken 7 by La Compagnie de Bière Brisset
A bottle of Broken 7 by La Compagnie de Bière Brisset
The label for Broken 7 by La Compagnie de Bière Brisset
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Last month Eloi Desjardins from Un show de mot’arts and I got together to discuss art in Montreal in the summer. We were in Joliette to see the Jacques Hurtubise exhibit there (more on it later) but the conversation quickly got focused on the Ryoji Ikeda exhibit at DHC/Art.
The EZ Montreal Art Podcast episode 4
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Last week Eloi Desjardins from Un show de mot’arts and I got together again to talk about the summertime art in Montreal. We’re calling it episode 2 of the EZ Montreal Art Podcast – get it?
The EZ Montreal Art Podcast episode 2
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